Pd.+6+Truth+and+Anthony+Speeches

Sojourner Truth: __**Ain't I A Woman?**__

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 * Sojouner Truth in 1851.
 * Born in 1797, she had great presence as a result of her very low voice and tall height (5ft. 11in.)
 * She was an ex-slave turned abolitionist.
 * Truth spoke for African American rights, but was also an advocate for Women's Rights.
 * Women at the Women's Convention
 * To gather women together for a common cause (their rights).
 * To speak up for African American women.
 * Held at Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio.

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 * "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?" (2nd paragraph)
 * And Ain't I a Woman? (2nd paragraph)
 * Where did your Christ come from? (4th paragraph)
 * And Ain't I a Woman?
 * "If my cup won't hold a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?" (3rd paragraph)
 * "Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had mothing to do with Him." (5th paragraph)
 * "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone," (6th paragraph)
 * "Look at me Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns and no man could head me...And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man--when I could get to it--and bear the lash as well and ain't I a woman? I have born 13 children and seen most all sold into slavery and when I cried out a mother's grief none but Jesus heard me...and ain't I a woman?" (2nd paragraph)
 * "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, all alone together women ought to be able to turn it rightside up again" (5th paragraph)
 * //"//that little man in black there say a woman can't have as much rights as a man cause Christ wan't a woman" (4th paragraph)
 * "Where did your Chirst come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with him!" (4th paragraph)

Susan B. Anthony: __**After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election**__

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 * Susan B. Anthony in 1873.
 * Anthony was born in 1820 into a strict Quaker houshold.
 * Began a public crusade on behalf of temperance.
 * New Yorkers
 * Men and women throughout the country. Speech was delivered for 45 years.
 * A persuasive and motivational speech arguing that women have just as much a right to vote as men do.
 * Outdoor Venue
 * Stump Speech throughout 29 postal districts in Monroe County, New York.

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 * "The preamble of the Federal Constitution says," (2nd paragraph)
 * "To them this government" (5th paragraph)
 * Oligarchs (members of a small governing faction, ruling by a few) (5th paragraph)
 * "Are women persons?" (7th paragraph)
 * Susan B. Anthony primarily used logos in her speech. She wanted to gain support that women had just as much a right to vote as men did. She used the Constitution mainly as support for logos.
 * "It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constituion, beyond the power of any state to deny." (1st paragraph).
 * "It was we, the people; not we, the white male citiznens; nor yet we, the male citiznes; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union." (3rd paragraph)
 * "Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote." (1st paragragh)
 * "It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household."
 * She used pathos in order to relate, on a personal level, to the women in her audience, listening to her speech.

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